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Lysander Spooner: “Every freeborn adult male Englishman (who had not lost his civil right" by crime or otherwise) was entitled to land of…”

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Every freeborn adult male Englishman (who had not lost his civil right" by crime or otherwise) was entitled to land of right; that is, by virtue of his civil freedom, or membership of the body politic.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that every freeborn adult male had a right to land as part of their civil freedom.

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